I got a beautiful double datura from Troy and was so excited because it's covered with lovely blooms but it's not making any seeds.
HELP!
This is what the spent bloom looks like... are the seeds hiding in there somewhere and I just don't see them?
I thought there was supposed to be a pod filled with hundreds of seeds at the base of each blossom...?
After the bloom falls off, then the seed pod starts forming and growing, may take a month or more to get big and full of ripe seeds. You may not be warm enough for that long?
It took my pods what seemed like months, to mature. I even saved the pod from the first bloom. Knowing a frost was coming last week, I picked a double white and double yellow pod prematurely. I hope they will continue to ripen, but if not, that's the breaks. I'm sure others will have plenty of seeds to spread around if we ask.
Hibiscus, probably we are not warm enough for that long. I could try and bring in the plant but?? would it be ok? What do I do to bring in a plant like a datura?
I hate to sound so clueless but that is exactly what I am - clueless!
I'd say you need to start plants a few weeks before last frost,I am just now getting blooms on some,I know I will never get seeds from,and I started in what seemed like the dead of winter.
How big is the plant? If you could try to not disturb the root too much, take a lot of dirt, pot it. Then don't bring it inside with heat, or it will drop everything. Maybe protect it from the frost? Inside porch with no heat? Otherwise, we all have seeds we will share for next summers' growing.
Good luck.
the seed is right there, well hidden by ur thumb. wait for the dried flower to fall. the seed pod will eventually grow and ripen.
try to cut a piece of the stem, and root it like u would a brug cutting. of course i have not done it myself. but i believe it might work. it is worth a try.
if u are to dig the plant out of its present area. try to dig a circle trench around the plant. fill the trench with water - to loosen the soild around the root zone. then dig carefully, so as not to damage the root level. in digging any plant, some roots will be cut off. to conpensate and balance off the lost roots, try cutting off some big leaves. after u have planted in pot. be sure to give shot of Vitamin B1 on ur water - to prevent plant shock.
last year, the datura i grew, i had to plant in pots cuz we have have to move. the plants survive for a bit till the temperature hit the 30 deg. temp. outside. then the plant slowly fade away and died. probably if i was not too busy then, and brought the plant indoors, they would have survive the winter chills. JMHO.
I have started cuttings, kept them growing inside during winter, gave a bunch away.
thanks Gloria. that info helps.
